LED scrubber for 65 gallon
[bold]This is boring backstory which you can skip.[/bold]
This might be my third attempt at a good scrubber. I had a scrubber working fairly well for a year or so, had to move so had the tank running at a friends house. For a year it was barely touched except to feed and top off water(which i didn't find out about until I came back) and surprisingly about half of my tank survived. Since i got it back i couldn't seem to grow decent algae on the scrubber and instead they grew in the display. I feel like I may have gotten the wrong type of bulbs from costco but i can't remember what it was anymore when i ran out of bulbs i stopped changing them altogether. Tank was neglected for another few months Now I finally decided to fix the scrubber with some leds.
2 heatsinks from Rapid led
1 meanwwell LPC-35-700 driver
3 x CREE XT-E Royal Blue LED
3 x Violet UV LED
6 x Philips Rebel ES 660nm LED
Is this too much light on a 12x10 screen? I'm currently running it on 18 on 6 off. (6 hours on 2 off etc this isn't necessary anymore right? ) Should I reduce the time?
Another question i have is I used 2 mesh sheets together and I don't see anyone doing that anymore. Is one sheet fine? I noticed alot of gunk was getting trapped in between the sheets. I realized some of my old problems as I was fixing this. The slot for the sheet was too thin and I had to widen that so I could run my pump unrestricted without it squirting from the scrubber.
This scrubber has been running for a day so far so i don't have any results to show here. I'm open to any suggestions for change
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Outsourcing labor to an asian
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These didn't seem to turn out too bad considering it was her first time soldering
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This is how bad the algaes gotten, even my snails are covered in hair algae.
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Today I decided to clean the glass and do a water change.
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Wow look at all the algae but at least I can finally see into the tank.
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